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I don’t make the rules, I just follow them. I’ve taken my fair share of shots of Funko Pops over the years, including this surreal retelling of ๊last summer’𒆙s Funko Fundays event at San Diego Comic-Con (if you haven’t seen the video before, strap in). More recently, I railed against Funko for dismantling 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its incredible board game division, which is Funko Pop-adjacent ridicule, but the council of game journos said it still counts. The point is, I’m a certified, fully-credentialed Funko Pop ▨hater. Now, let me explain why Funko Fusion is probably going to be pretty good.
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If you didn’t see the reveal this week, Funko Fusion is an upcoming multiplayer action-adventure game featuring over 60 characters from 20 franchises, including Back the Future, The Walking Dead, The Thing, Invincible, and Nope. It’s exactly the kind of cynical IP soup that strips art of all mജeaning in pursuit of cutesy, collectible, nostalgia bait. Funko Fusion may bring us one step closer to the death of culture, but anyway, let’s get back to why I think it could be great.
Last week I attended a gameplay preview event hosted by Arthur Parsons, co-founder, design director, and head of publishing at 10:10 Games. 10:10 was founded in 2021 by eꦉx-Traveller’s Tales developers, including Parsons who served as head of design, and Jon Burton, who co-founded Traveller’s Tales in 1989. As a ‘90s kid, Traveller’s Tales’ games had a huge impact on me. Toy Story, Sonic R, Crash Twinsanity, and Mickey Mania are just the studio’s most famous games, but starting in 2005 Traveller’s Tales became, first and foremost, th𒆙e Lego game studio.
Between 2005’s Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and 2022’s Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Traveller’s Tales developed 22 Lego games, all based on major IPs. Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, DC, Marvel, Lord 🐻of the Rings, and more all got the Lego game treatment. And, for the most part, these were all massively successful, both critically and financially. Traveller’s Tales nailed down a formula for adapting pop culture into approachable, family-friendly games with their own unique style and sense of humor. From everything I’ve seen so far, 10:10 Games is continuing that tradition with Funko Fusion.
The Lego game DNA is unmistakable in Funko Fusion. It’s a third-person action adventure game that consists of comical, simplified retellings of famous movies. You and your friends can select from a wide range of characters, each with their own weapons and special abilities, and play through the storylines of each world in any order you choose. Along the way you’ll experience key plot 🍎points from ea♍ch movie, solve puzzles, and unlock collectibles and rewards, including access to secret levels that take you to entirely new movie worlds.
It’s fundamentally a Lego game, just with a little more edge. A lot of the movies featured are R-rated, so there’s more violence and gore than what you’d expect from a Lego game (though not much, you&rsquဣo;re still playing as a mouthless bobble head after all). The demo I watched took us through a level based on The Thing where Funko MacReady blasted enemy’s giant heads off with a shotgun, and a Shaun of the Dead level where Funko Shaun bludgeoned zombies tওo death with a cricket bat.
There’s some uncomfortable stabbings, some gushes of blood. It’s more mature than I was expecting for a Fu🗹nko game, but Parsons says that, like the Lego games, authenticity to the source material was imperative. While watching the segment from T🐷he Thing, he revealed that the layout of the level is accurate to the layout of the Antarctic research station from the movie. The more I learn about Funko Fusion, the more impressed I am.
There will be Funko Pop tie-ins for the game, of course, but Parsons is clear that Fusion is not a toys-to-life game like Lego Dimensions. Fusion is a full-price game that will be a complete experience out of the box. He does reveal that there are plans for DLC content, but 10:10 intends to let the community drive future content. They want to listen to fans and pursue the IPs that people want to see most. Parsons says Fusion isn’t a live-service🎀 game, but the studio intends to support it as long as there’s interest in it.
If we’re doomed to live in a world modeled after Ready Player One where every game is just a loose adaptation of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, I much prefer Funko Fusion’s approach over something like Fortnite. Fusion aims to retell classic stories through a Funko-fied lens, and retain the identity of its characters through their items and abilities. I have a lot of respect for the way the Lego games handled the movies they adapted, a𝄹nd it looks like Funko Fusion has all the same qualities.This is The Mummy, He-Man, Hot Fuzz, Xena Warrior Princess cross-over literally no one was asking for, but I must admit, I’m pretty curious to see how it turns out.
